Ramesh Venkataraman
Dean
Academic Advising
Please note: graduate assistant advisors are graduate students who advise Hutton Honors College undergraduates.
Hutton Honors College Staff & Faculty
Administration
Clark Barwick
Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Teaching
Clark Barwick, Ph.D., is Co-Director and Teaching Professor in Communication, Professional, and Computer Skills at IU’s Kelley School of Business, where he has taught strategic communication since 2011. Dr. Barwick also serves as Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the Hutton Honors College, and for five years, he served as Associate Director for IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET). Dr. Barwick is a recognized leader in the study of the global coffee trade and has offered a popular Hutton seminar that introduces students to the economic, scientific, cultural, and human rights aspects of coffee. In 2025, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Esme Ceballos
Assistant Director, Hutton International Experiences Program
Esme Ceballos joined the Hutton International Experiences Program (HIEP) Team in October 2024. Prior to her position at Hutton, she was an academic advisor in the Kelley School of Business. Esme earned a BS in psychology from Purdue University Indianapolis (formerly IUPUI) and her M.S.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from IU Bloomington.
Bryce Campbell
Scholarship Coordinator
Laura Felicetti
Director of Recruitment, Outreach, & Admissions
Paul Fogleman
Director, Office of National Scholarships and Awards
Sarah Fogleman
Coordinator, Cox Research Scholars Program
Jeff Heerdink-Santos
Director of Global and Experiential Learning
Rebecca Steele
Director of Academic Administration & Operations
Alleigh Allen
Extracurricular Programs and Communications Coordinator
Zilia Balkansky-Sellés
Academic Advisor (Advanced)
Zilia Balkansky-Sellés is a writer and actor. She has been published in Comparative Woman (Louisiana State University), Trigger Warnings, Stormwash: Environmental Poems, and has given readings at the Writers Guild at Bloomington events. She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and serves as an academic advisor in the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University.
Matt Ely
Graduate Assistant Advisor
Matthew Ely is a PhD candidate in the Higher Education program at Indiana University's School of Education. His scholarly interest in in experimental American colleges and their curricular history. He enjoys reading, watching baseball, and trying to keep up with his toddler daughter.
Catherine Haynes
Graduate Assistant Advisor
Tara McLeod
Academic Advisor
Tara McLeod has been an academic advisor in the Hutton Honors College for three and a half years. With a background in anthropology, she has taught classes on cultural anthropology and prehistory and has worked in Cultural Resources Management as an archaeologist in Maryland and Oklahoma. She was also a public librarian in Connecticut before moving to Bloomington. She likes spending time with friends and family (including two mischievous cats), making ceramics, and gardening.
Khalfan Mohammed
Associate Director of Advising
Khalfan Mohamed serves as the Associate Director of Advising and as academic advisor. He studied law in Russia and the United States and worked in various positions in Tanzania before moving to the United States. He has also taught Swahili for several years at the African Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. He likes traveling, reading and gardening during his spare time.
Adam Singh
Academic Advisor
Adam Singh is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. He studies the literature of Catalan exiles in Mexico, with his dissertation focusing on the exiles' adaptation of the postconquest indigenous myth of Quetzalcoatl.
Faculty
Richard Cecil
Adjunct Faculty
Richard Cecil is a poet and educator, currently serving as an adjunct faculty member at the Hutton Honors College. He previously served as faculty for the IU Department of English. As a poet, Cecil has authored several collections and his work has been featured in numerous literary journals.
Brittney Currie
Lecturer
Britt Currie, PhD, studied Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has also earned a Masters of Science in Philosophy from University of Edinburgh, a Masters of Arts in Critical Theory from King's College, London, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Literature. Her main research is in the philosophy of psychology. She has accomplished interdisciplinary empirical work in the field of moral decision making. Currently, she researches on the topic of empathy and also, the Ethics of AI. Over the years, she has won several teaching awards. She very much enjoys supporting her students in realizing their individual goals as learners.
Gareth Evans
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Gareth Evans is a literary historian who has published work on the early American novel, and on the postmodern geographer, Ed Soja. He teaches classes on 21st-Century American Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Climate Change Fiction. He also teaches a class called Modern Madness, which looks at the very different ways in which madness has been defined between the 1790s and a week last Wednesday. He used to work in the secondhand book trade.
Sarah Frohardt-Lane
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Sarah Frohardt-Lane has a B.A. in History from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She is an environmental and urban historian of the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who also has a strong interest in gender history and the history of civil rights.